Chapter 28
A Miscellany Including Stationery, Clocks, Noises, Baby Carriages, Remuneration and Advance Preparations
BOOKS AND STATIONERY
9.a. One may open and close the metal rings of a loose-leaf file holding documents that are not muktzeh.
9.b. Nevertheless, sorting the documents into a particular order is prohibited, unless one is about to peruse them in that order.
9.c. One is permitted to leaf through a file in search of a required document, and this is not an infringement of the prohibition against selection.
9.d. Blank sheets of paper in a file are muktzeh.
1) If the other papers in the file are of some importance to one and one sometimes reads them. then
a) the presence of the blank sheets does not prohibit one from handling those other papers,
b) one may move the whole file and
c) one may even turn over the blank sheets in order to reach a document one requires.
2) If the other papers are not of any importance to one and one does not read them, one should treat the whole file as being muktzeh.
9.e. A file whose contents consist of commercial documents and letters, accounts and other muktzeh papers of the kind referred to in paragraph 6 above should not be handled at all.
